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The CU Boulder Mortenson Center for Global Engineering is pioneering a new vision for engineering for global development, and awarding professionals and students that represent its ethos. The Mortenson...
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Boost Creativity
Why it is hard to be creative? Creativity is one topic in self-development courses that evokes immediate responses from students, entrepreneurs, innovators, etc. If you search the Internet, there...
Engineers Are Not Ending Poverty. Time for a Change?
Engineers have designed and deployed appropriate technologies that solve the problems of global poverty, but poverty persists. The abundance of quality, low-powered, low-cost devices, however ingeniously conceived, may not...
Impact.Engineered Made Tough Decisions in Tech and Social Im...
Imagine trying to choose the winners of social impact and technological ingenuity awards from among multinational conglomerates with social responsibility budgets that dwarf the entire revenues of smaller companies....
50 Breakthroughs Set the Agenda for Research into Global Dev...
Fifty years after the term “intermediate technology” came to describe a nascent category of engineering and design, the field is maturing. That may surprise even some practitioners, but today,...
Evaluating Household Energy Resources in Rural Kenya
Communities in rural Kenya are still heavily dependent on wood fuel and other biomass for their basic energy needs. Reliance on biomass can lead to health and environmental deterioration:...
We Have the Blueprint for Liveable, Low-Carbon Cities. We Just Need to Use It
Over the past seven years more than 100 research projects at the Co-operative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living,...
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Reflections on a Review of Studies on the Physical and Emotional Toll of Carrying Water
Growing up in India, I was fortunate enough to have a piped supply of municipal water in my home....
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Engineering Gives Me a Chance to Make the World Better
Editor’s note: This profile of an engineer is a contribution to Engineering for Change courtesy of the international infrastructure...
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As More Developing Countries Reject Plastic Waste Exports, Wealthy Nations Seek Solutions at Home
Less than two years after China banned most imports of scrap material from abroad, many of its neighbors are...
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Solutions for Resilience and Peace Building Across the World
About 90 percent of USAID’s water priority countries are conflict-affected or fragile. In 2018, over 60 million people around the world...
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Solutions to Keep Food on the Table in a Changing Climate
The world’s food production is in jeopardy because the fertile layer of soil that people depend on to plant crops is...
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Black and Decker Introduces a Solar Irrigation Pump for Indian Farms
Solar-powered water pumps have officially entered the mainstream. Stanley Black & Decker, the multinational conglomerate widely known for its...
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India’s Universal Power Supply May Be Only a Subsidy Policy Away
India has almost achieved the historic goal of connecting every household to the electricity grid. The next challenge is...
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A Tool Kit Helps Designers Create Products with the Planet in Mind
Engineers often run into the same problem when creating new products designed to make a positive impact: unintended consequences....
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A Day in the Life: E4C’s Research Fellowship Translates to Job Skills
Engineering for Change follows up with the talented graduates of our Research Fellowship to learn how they apply the...
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